Posted on 11/19/2016 10:14:54 PM PST by nickcarraway
Gov. Greg Abbott had earlier dedicated a monument recognizing the contribution of African-Americans to the state near the capitol building
Eight people were arrested on Saturday when a small group of protesters calling themselves White Lives Matter were confronted by counter-demonstrators supporting Black Lives Matter at the Texas State Capitol near where Gov. Greg Abbott had earlier dedicated a monument recognizing the contribution of African-Americans to the state.
Officials have dedicated a monument on the grounds of the Texas State Capitol recognizing the contributions of African-Americans in the state. The monument was unveiled Saturday in Austin as about two dozen individuals with a White Lives Matter group held a protest at another area of the Capitol. Those individuals were shouted down by a much larger group of counter-protesters who held up signs that said, "Stand Against Hate." Gov. Greg Abbott told a crowd attending the unveiling ceremony that the monument honors African-Americans who helped grow Texas. The monument is located on the Capitol's south lawn, close to other monuments that honor Confederate soldiers for their service during the Civil War. It was not immediately known if any arrests were made during the protests.Eight people were arrested on Saturday when a small group of protesters calling themselves White Lives Matter were confronted by counter-demonstrators supporting Black Lives Matter at the Texas State Capitol near where Gov. Greg Abbott had earlier dedicated a monument recognizing the contribution of African-Americans to the state.
Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman Sgt. Victor Taylor said four of the arrests were for assault, two for evading arrest, one for disorderly conduct and one for "interference with public duty." Two of those arrested were on Capitol grounds and the others on adjacent streets.
"Some protesters assaulted other protesters," Taylor said. "We don't know for sure which side they were on. A lot of them were co-mingled."
Austin police and state troopers dressed in riot gear and some mounted on horseback had tried to keep the two groups separated.
Taylor said the confrontation did not affect the unveiling of the monument, which was in a different part of the grounds. A state helicopter circled overhead.
About two dozen individuals with the White Lives Matter group, some of whom were armed, demonstrated against what they called the unequal application of hate crimes laws, which they said are applied in a way that favors minorities. The group said it was a coincidence that its protest was held at about the same time as the ceremony for the monument.
White Lives Matter member and protest organizer Ken Reed said into a bullhorn that his group was concerned with "white people's preservation."
"You all are anti-white and anti-American," he told the counter-protesters, according to the Austin American-Statesman.
The White Lives Matter group was shouted down by several hundred counter-protesters, who held up signs that said "Stand Against Hate" and "Black Lives Matter."
One of them, Marie Catrett, said she came to stand up for the rights of minorities.
"I think they are full of hatred," Catrett said about the White Lives Matter group. "They don't represent our community or our values."
During the unveiling ceremony, Abbott told a crowd in attendance that the monument honors African-Americans who helped grow Texas.
"The fact is African Americans have shaped this land that we are on today since long before it was even named the state of Texas. They fought for their own freedom. They fought for the freedom of Texas and the freedom of the United States of America," Abbott said.
The monument is located on the Capitol's south lawn, close to other monuments that honor Confederate soldiers for their service during the Civil War.
The new monument features the African-American experience in Texas, from exploration in the 1500s to slavery and emancipation to achievement in arts and science.
It will be the 21st monument on the Capitol grounds and the second memorial dedicated to a specific ethnic group. Texas installed the Tejano Monument to Mexican-American history in 2012.
Irony. Whites will not hit the streets when they need to (i.e. Obama made horrible decisions or Executive orders), but do hit the streets when they shouldn’t. No wonder we are constantly in jeopardy of losing our country.
I know nothing of black history in Texas.
Was it a worthy monument?
The Wiggers were just plain stupid.
The Black lives matters could simply invited them to share in the celebration and dedication.
That, and I think the fake wiggers are paid plants....
If Abbott thought it was, it was.
Your word is good enough for me.
Sounds like he’s revered by Texans like Rudy is by Staten Islanders :)
Texas wouldn’t exist as part of the United States if it weren’t for blacks. Or rather, for the desire by white American settlers to own them as slaves. Mexico’s abolition of slavery was a central - and I would argue the central - reason for the Texas War of Independence.
I've been around the block more than a few times in my 60+ years. I've met avowed Marxists, former members of the Weather Underground, people who think the NRA is too moderate and people of every race and description. But I don't think I've ever met a bonafide white supremacist.
A truly dumb effort by some screw-loosers. All it does is reinforce the racist stereotyping. It does not sound like it was dedicated to a *specific* African-American such as Barbara Jordan or Sheila Jackson-Lee so it would seem this monument is as non-offensive as it gets and yet a few yahoos show up to protest.
It probably comes down to how one defines the term. Is ‘The Bell Curve’ supremacist, for example? or is it actually advocating legal or political policies.... Could be millions by some definitions and almost zero by another, perhaps.....
#8 I’ve met several white supremacists and they are batshit crazy. I attended a KKK/American Nazi Party rally in Brentwood, Md around 1969 or 1970. It was a learning experience, like stepping back into Nazi Germany of the Deep South of the 30’s. Talk about psychopathic losers.
Also met and talked to J.B. Stoner at a congressional hearing I was covering. He looked like Pinky Lee (same hat) as well as I.F. Stone (CPUSA, KGB). Very polite to the media but his writings were all racist and anti-Semitic.
Even knew some Liberty Lobby members. Also batshit crazy, anti-Semitic, possibly anti-Catholic (or just the pope), etc.
They are out there and always will be but America has grown up and they are vestigial relics of a shameful past. However, they keep the SPLC fully funded by their raising the spectre of a massive way of anti-black extremists rising up against America.
SPLC, like these white extremists, are extremists on the Left who follow the old Stalinist disinformation line of “No threat from the Left”.
And the real reds like Ayers, Rudd, Jarvis Tyner and others who I’ve met over the years are just a crazy and ideological psycopaths as their counterparts on the right, only they get university jobs.
“I know nothing of black history in Texas.
Was it a worthy monument?”
Yeah, it is. They even have a state holiday (June 19) when the Emancipation Proclamation took effect.
I didn’t know George Soros opened a new Branch of his (Ethnic bases Group ) “Lives Matter” Protester franchise....
I wonder if he will ever get around to a Yellow Lives matter franchise sometime?
The above three causes cover 90% of the reason for broken marriages. Substance abuse issues are generally related to one or more of these three big causes.
I am NOT suggesting that people intentionally seek spouses outside of their race or culture. It presents another possible incompatibility factor to deal with . . . albeit far less than the FID formula. I'm just saying that our governments own purpose of dividing us by race is frustrated by the children of mixed marriages.
fascinating. Thank you
And of course you remember all the big name Blacks that died at the Alamo.
so it would seem this monument is as non-offensive as it gets
Really? So dedicating a monument to the contributions of White Americans in the state would not be 'offensive'?
All it does is reinforce the racist stereotyping.
What does this mean exactly? What is 'racist stereotyping'? And whose racist stereotyping are we talking about?
If you’re the type that gets offended at every Miss Black America pageant or Black Entertainment Television because there’s no Miss White America or White Entertainment Television, you’ve already lost this battle. It only makes you and yours look like bigots.
A black person can stroll the grounds of the State Capitol and see dozens of statues honoring white people and none honoring their kind. If it takes one harmless statue like this to give them a feeling of inclusion, it is a small sacrifice.
If you think a statue honoring blacks is racist, you should see what goes into the school textbooks nowadays. Wait until the thousands of schools, bridges, highways, airports and government buildings go up across the country honoring Barack Obama happens - and it will because he’s the first black president. This same sort of scene is going to be played out dozens of more times and if a handful of white idiots stand out there and protest it, you’ll get no sympathy. It’s smarter to let blacks have their moment of inclusion because that’s exactly how most black people perceive this.
I agree!!!
Really? And I differ with you.
I will grant to you that slavery was a minuscule part of the Texas War FOR Independence but not anywhere close the main issue to fight Santa Anna to be free and independent from his rule.
Firstly, there are numerous historical articles out that can and will not be disputed by liberal thinkers that the number one reason that the Texas War for Independence was fought was the laws laid down by the Mexican authority, Santa Anna on his "citizens" north of the Rio Bravo, namely the Texians. Whether you were brown, black, or white did not matter to him. He needed his remittance. They were enforced by the end of the sword or the end of a noose.
Secondly, the Texians were forced to become Catholics when they entered Tejas but these people were mainly Protestant. Coming from a country that fought a Revolutionary War over freedom of religion this ground on the Texians and was to become one of the sticking points. The Texians started openly practicing their Protestant religion and started to be attacked by the Mexican military over it.
Thirdly, was that the taxes and tithe was collected by the Mexican military. Again, this was representative of the British military collecting dues and tariffs for the King and again a throw back to what the Revolutionary War was fought over. The poor farmers and store keepers were be driven into destitution over these taxes ant tithe. After all Mexico had just gone through a revolt itself and need money to fill its coffers. They were drained from years of fighting and insurrections.
And finally, there were more freed blacks in Tejas than there were slaves. Texians were not allowed to bring slaves into Tejas, by order of the Mexican Government, when they became Mexican Citizens. Sure some were gotten in but the point is that Tejas was a freed slave province. Any escaped slave from the South made his or her way to Tejas. The Texas Historical Association and others back this. They also back that most of the black freed men took part in the Revolution and felt it was their duty to fight the Mexicans because this was their land as much as the other white Texians. That is why we remember Sam McCulloch Jr. one of the first freed men to fire a shot in the Texas Revolution.
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